Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Chiyao (2nd nomination)

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was:  delete. --BDD (talk) 15:07, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Chiyao


Renominating for deletion. One sentence unsourced draft from December 2014 that is already covered by Yao language (this is another term for the same language). Contrary to what was suggested before, we don't have alternative articles for different terms for the same language and there is already an actual cited source for the population in mainspace so I don't see the need to merge in an uncited statement about the population. Ricky81682 (talk) 01:10, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Still no reason to delete.  Organizing content in mainspace, by merging and leaving redirects, is the standard practice and a good thing to do.  Doing the same thing outside mainspace is probably a completely worthless use of effort, tedious, no benefit, no problems removed, but if that's how you want to volunteer your time, go ahead, any bad edits can be reverted at any time.  However, bringing them to MfD is overkill at best and recklessly destructive at worst.  MfD is not well used to force cleanup of obscure pages.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 14:23, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * All the empty pages were deleted from this dead project. There's still a mass of copyright problems I keep finding and deleting from these pages. Useful pages are being moved to mainspace or merged with their relevant articles. Why is deleting this page because of the single sentence such a terrible idea when the pages without a single sentence can easily be deleted without dispute? Should I have just removed this as an unsourced sentence and argue for it deletion that way? I have no idea what you want here. Do you actually want someone to go back to this obscure page and work on it knowing full well that a mainspace page exists? Why? So that their work continues to lie in complete obscurity or so that someone else hopefully finds it and make it useful? Is the purpose here to create an encyclopedia or just to store scraps of lines people make while seeing if it randomly creates something useful eventually? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:44, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It is not already sufficiently covered in the Yao language article. It is not merely an alternative English name, although some English thought so. More work is needed. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:28, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the page should be editorially redirected to Yao language. There is no need, or point to deletion, and deletion is alienating to its authors.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:39, 9 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep. Drafts should be encouraged not discouraged. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sulky mulky (talk • contribs)  Blocked sock. MER-C 12:22, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't see any reason to keep this. From what I managed to gather, Chiyao means "Yao Language" and at best this should be a redirect (which is already present in mainspace). In addition, the content in the draft (one single unsourced sentence) is already present in the mainspace at Yao_people_(East_Africa) and is unsourced as well. Since we have a redirect in the mainspace and we also have the content, I see no reason to keep this draft. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 06:56, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete There's no reason to keep this - it's never going to be an article. Someone leaving their drink on the lid of a garbage can might come back for it in a minute.  After a day, there's no chance. 24.210.156.247 (talk) 18:28, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.